The Florida congressional District 27 race will go into an automatic machine recount on Monday, and a federal lawsuit could complicate the process. Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar led Democrat Eliott Rodriguez by about 1,103 votes, or 0.44%, as of Friday night, with 230 precincts reporting. The state’s legal threshold for an automatic recount is a margin of one-half of a percentage point.
Miami-Dade · Politics
Salazar-Rodriguez race heads to machine recount as lawsuit seeks recusal
The close District 27 congressional race between Maria Elvira Salazar and Eliott Rodriguez will go to an automatic machine recount, with a federal lawsuit pending over Miami-Dade's elections chief.
